A statue of the 19th-century biologist and geologistLouis Agassiz was previously installed on the exterior of Building 420 (formerlyJordan Hall), in theMain Quad of Stanford University, in the U.S. state of California. It has since been removed.[1][2]
During the1906 San Francisco earthquake, the statue, made ofmarble, fell from the second floor of the zoology building.[4][5]The New York Times' Rebecca Stott writes, "The great scientist, with his head buried in concrete, his upturned body sticking up into air, became an iconic image of the earthquake."[6] The statue was not damaged.[7]
In 2020, theStanford Department of Psychology requested to remove the statue from the front façade of its building due to his support ofpolygenism.[8] The statue was removed in October 2020.[9]
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^The Stanford Quad, Volume 14. Associated Students of Stanford University. 1908. p. 24.Archived from the original on August 15, 2022. RetrievedOctober 7, 2018.
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